History WesternAnimation / FlyingRhinoJuniorHigh

And whenever Earl is up to no good, it's then up to the school's resident Four Man Band of students, made up of TheLeader Billy O' Toole, elementary-aged prodigy [[TheSmartGuy Marcus Snarkis]], his older sister [[TheChick Ruby Snarkis]], and tomboy [[TheLancer Lydia Lopez]]. With a little help from their teachers and fellow students, our unlikely band of heroes are the only ones able to stop The Phantom and his mad machinations, as well as make their way past the crazy and impossible things that happen every day only at Flying Rhino Junior High.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: In the race against Achilles, the kids devise a plan to psyche him out by having students wearing casts on their legs or dragging their feet, which in turn makes him paranoid about his heel and gets more and more messed up, totally freaking out and losing the race. Yes a bunch of normal kids, MindRaped a Greek Demi-God.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "Prehysteria", Marcus gets the idea to get rid of a t-rex by using instant oatmeal and the school pool as an improvised tar pit. While this works, Marcus quickly realizes a flaw in this plan; all the oatmeal attracts herbivorous dinos, which in turn attract carnivores. Now the group's gone from dealing with one t-rex to several.

* MasterOfDisguise: "Live and Let Spy" has one of Earl's henchmen, The Impostor, being one of these, utilizing disguises of the LatexPerfection variety to impersonate Edna the lunch lady and Mrs. Snodgrass. During his proper introduction by Earl, he demonstrates his disguise ability by removing a mask of his normal face to reveal [[MultiLayerFacade rubber masks of another teacher, Princial Mulligan and Ratticus]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: In "Prehysteria", Marcus gets the idea to get rid of a t-rex by using instant oatmeal and the school pool as an improvised tar pit. While this works, Marcus quickly realizes a flaw in this plan; all the oatmeal attracts herbivorous dinos, which intern attract carnivores. Now the group's gone from dealing with one t-rex to several.

While ''Flying Rhino Junior High'' was short-lived, the show's history and legacy is rather interesting. It actually began life as the ''Flying Rhino'' series, [[https://www.flyingrhinobooks.com/about a collection of humorous kid-oriented educational books originally published in 1993,]] as well as [[https://www.reallybigcreative.com/work/rhino-books a series of short educational cartoons created for schools across America.]] And while the show and its predecessors have faded into obscurity following their discontinuation, creator Ray Nelson Jr. continues to use the ''Flying Rhino'' characters for educational platforms, from websites and apps to [[https://www.reallybigcreative.com/work/bcbs even a grassroots organic food campaign!]]

In the eponymous school, an evil genius named [[BigBad Earl P. Sidebottom]] dwells in the depths of its basement, working and living down there a la Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera after fleeing in shame when he received a "D" grade in shop class. Along with [[NonHumanSidekick his intelligent rodent servant Raticus]], Earl (or "The Phantom" as he prefers to be called) extracts petty revenge on the school [[OnceAnEpisode pretty much every day]] by using a highly advanced computer of his design that can warp reality to transform the school into many strange and dangerous places, from a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs prehistoric dinosaur-filled jungle]] to AncientRome to a ComicBook to a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque spy flick, usually basing what he transforms the school into on whatever relevant topic has come up in school on that day.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The first ever episode, "Prehysterical", has the school be turned into a prehistoric jungle full of, of course, dinosaurs.

* TheBGrade: Why Earl became the Phantom. A D in shop class was too much to bear.

* BerserkButton: Ho, boy, Earl has a whole keyboard of these. And pressing them is what instigates his attacks.

* TheDoorSlamsYou: Mulligan does this to Buford in the intro.
* EdutainmentShow: See above.

* FrankensteinsMonster: An episode revolves around Earl creating one.

* LargeHam: Earl, of course.

* MindScrew: 'Phantom Christmas' revolves around the Phantom receiving one of these.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Ratticus

* UpliftedAnimal: Raticus is stated to be this.

->There's a phantom in the basement, the janitor's a spy\\
The principal's a rhino, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight and no one's asking why!]]\\

It's just another day at [[AcademyOfAdventure Flying Rhino Junior High!]]

[[caption-width-right:350: 'Cause anything is possible at Flying Rhino Junior High!]]

In the eponymous school, an evil boy genius named [[BigBad Earl P. Sidebottom]] dwells in the depths of its basement, working and living down there a la Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera after fleeing in shame when he received a "D" grade in shop class. Along with [[NonHumanSidekick his intelligent rodent servant Raticus]], Earl (or "The Phantom" as he prefers to be called) extracts petty revenge on the school [[OnceAnEpisode pretty much every day]] by using a highly advanced computer of his design that can warp reality to transform the school into many strange and dangerous places, from a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs prehistoric dinosaur-filled jungle]] to AncientRome to a ComicBook to a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque spy flick, usually basing what he transforms the school into on whatever relevant topic has come up in school on that day.

And whenever Earl is up to no good, it's then up to the school's resident [[FiveManBand Four Man Band]] of students, made up of TheLeader Billy O' Toole, elementary-aged prodigy [[TheSmartGuy Marcus Snarkis]], his older sister [[TheChick Ruby Snarkis]], and tomboy [[TheLancer Lydia Lopez]]. With a little help from their teachers and fellow students, our unlikely band of heroes are the only ones able to stop The Phantom and his mad machinations, as well as make their way past the crazy and impossible things that happen every day only at Flying Rhino Junior High.

''Flying Rhino Junior High'' is a Canadian animated television series created by American cartoonist Ray Nelson Jr. and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It originally aired for 2 seasons and 26 episodes from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on Creator/{{CBS}} as part of the Nelvana-produced ''CBS Kidshow'' SaturdayMorningCartoon block, but also popped up on Creator/{{YTV}} and Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and [[Creator/{{ITV}} STV]] in Scotland, and on the Creator/CartoonNetwork in the rest of the UK.

''Flying Rhino Junior High'' is a Canadian animated television series created by Ray Nelson Jr. and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It originally aired for 2 seasons and 26 episodes from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on Creator/{{CBS}} as part of the Nelvana-produced ''CBS Kidshow'' SaturdayMorningCartoon block, but also popped up on Creator/{{YTV}} and Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and [[Creator/{{ITV}} STV]] in Scotland, and on the Creator/CartoonNetwork in the rest of the UK.

At Flying Rhino Junior High School, an evil boy genius named [[BigBad Earl P. Sidebottom]] dwells in the depths of its basement, working and living down there a la Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera after fleeing in shame when he received a "D" grade in shop class. Along with [[NonHumanSidekick his intelligent rodent servant Raticus]], Earl (or "The Phantom" as he prefers to be called) extracts petty revenge on the school [[OnceAnEpisode pretty much every day]] by using a highly advanced computer of his design that can warp reality to transform the school into many strange and dangerous places, from a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs prehistoric dinosaur-filled jungle]] to AncientRome to a ComicBook to a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque spy flick, usually basing what he transforms the school into on whatever relevant topic has come up in school on that day.

Nelvana started making episodes available on Youtube through their Keep it Weird channel in 2021. [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZb1SVCX0ajoFS2lSH4Zjz3eC0zhYtXlr You can see them all here!]]

''Flying Rhino Junior High'' is a Canadian animated television series created by Ray Nelson Jr. and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It originally aired for 2 seasons and 26 episodes from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on Creator/{{CBS}} as part of the Nelvana-produced ''CBS Kidshow'' SaturdayMorningCartoon block, but also popped up on Creator/{{YTV}} and Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and STV in Scotland, and on the Creator/CartoonNetwork in the rest of the UK.

''Flying Rhino Junior High'' is a Canadian animated television series produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}}. It originally aired for 2 seasons and 26 episodes from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on Creator/{{CBS}} as part of the Nelvana-produced ''CBS Kidshow'' SaturdayMorningCartoon block, but also popped up on Creator/{{YTV}} and Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada and STV in Scotland, and on the Creator/CartoonNetwork in the rest of the UK.

The principal of the school is also a talking rhino in a suit, and the janitor is an ex-secret agent PigMan. There seems to be little reason for this outside of the fact that they just are (Well, the principal does have an autobiography called "It's a Skin Condition, REALLY!").

[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[SupervillainLair There's a phantom in the basement]], [[AlmightyJanitor the Janitor's a spy]], [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight the Principal's a Rhino and no-one's asking why]]! [[LivingDinosaurs Dinosaurs are everywhere]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Tornadoes}} a twister's in the sky]] [[AcademyOfAdventure - it's just another day at Flying Rhino Junior High!]]]]''

''Flying Rhino Junior High'' is a Canadian [[WesternAnimation animated television series]] produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} Limited and Scottish Television. It originally aired from October 3, 1998 to January 22, 2000 on CBS (as part of a Nelvana-produced block termed the ''CBS Kidshow'', that included ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes'' (based off the Fisher-Price toys), ''Literature/{{Anatole}}'' (about a mouse who worked in a cheese factory), ''WesternAnimation/MythicWarriorsGuardiansOfTheLegend'' (stories about Greek Mythology), ''WesternAnimation/BlastersUniverse'' (based off a line of educational CD-ROM games), ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'' (which, according to the creator, was ScrewedByTheNetwork), ''Literature/TheDumbBunnies'' (based off a series of books by the creator of ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'', Dav Pilkey, but under a false name), a revival of ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptkeeper'', and reruns of ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' (later swapped with Nick Jr.'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'') . Reruns used to be shown on YTV in Canada and STV in Scotland (they co-produced most of these shows), and on the Cartoon Network in the rest of the UK.

[[OnceAnEpisode Pretty much every day]] at Flying Rhino Junior High, the series resident [[BigBad villain]] Earl P. Sidebottom (an [[EvilGenius evil boy genius]] who once got a "D" grade in shop class and so fled in shame to the school's basement, where he now works and lives ala Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera), along with his [[NonHumanSidekick evil mutated rat sidekick]] Ratticus, extracts his revenge on the school by using a machine of his design that can warp reality to transform the school into many strange and dangerous places (he transforms the school into everything from a [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs prehistoric dinosaur-filled jungle]] to AncientRome to a ComicBook to ''Film/JamesBond''-esque spy film in various episodes), usually basing what he transforms the school into on whatever relevant topic has come up in school classes (or just in normal conversations around the school) on that day. It's then up to the school's resident [[FiveManBand Four Man Band]] of students (namely [[TheHero Billy O' Toole]], [[TheSmartGuy Marcus Snarkus]], [[TheChick Ruby Snarkus]], and [[TheLancer Lydia Lopez]]) and their rather large cast of school friends to save the school and the day.

The principal of the school is also a talking rhino in a suit, and the janitor is a former-secret agent humanoid-pig. There seems to be little reason for this outside of the fact that they just are. (Well, the Principal does have an autobiography called "It's a skin condition, REALLY!")

It ran for two seasons and 26 episodes. Nelvana has also started making episodes available on Youtube through their Keep it Weird channel.

[[caption-width-right:350: ''[[SupervillainLair There's a phantom in the basement]], [[AlmightyJanitor the Janitor's a spy]], [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight the Principal's a Rhino and no-one's asking why]]! [[LivingDinosaurs Dinosaurs are everywhere]], [[UsefulNotes/{{Tornadoes}} a twister's in the sky]] [[AcademyOfAdventure - it's just another day at Flying Rhino Junior High!]]]]